7 Lesson n°7 | Cours de phonologie anglaise

7.1 Correction de l’examen de mi-semestre

Listen to the following words and transcribe them:

Listen to the following words and transcribe them:

Consider:

Can you categorize those assimilations?

Trouvez les endroits où peuvent se produire des assimilations, et tentez de les classer :

Cf. most previous examples.

By far the most common type of assimilation in English.

In English, it is usually a form containing a fricative which is replaced by a nasal or a lateral.

Another example: “till they meet again”.

These involve a reduction of the fortis/lenis contrast (voiced/voiceless).

In English, EA:

only goes from lenis to fortis, never the other way round (“back door” or “not bad”)
is rare in stressed syllables, cf:
- “have to”, “used to”, where EA has now become compulsory.

Identify the connected speech assimilations likely to occur in the following sequences:

it was spectacular
of course
if she chooses to wait
the waiter’s forgotten us
Helen could have talked to him
as she sometimes did